7 English Constitution in 1925⁷:  “No state can be first rate which is not a government by  discussion”.    In  Queensland,  a  sophisticated  community  cabinet  process  was adopted  in  1998  seeking  to  decrease  public  distrust  in  Government  and  increase ‘social  capital’  in  the  community.    The  utility  of  social  capital  was  discussed  by Professor  Glyn  Davis  in  his  thought  provoking  paper,  “Re-Inventing  Government  – Queensland Style”⁸: “Social  capital  makes  possible  …  ‘civic  engagement’  –  people’s connections with the life of their communities and the politics of their nation.  Those with social capital have the networks, the information, the  understanding  of  civic  life,  and  the  confidence  to  engage  their world.    They  develop  the  skills  to  work  with  other  people,  and  a willingness to take responsibility for their own destiny. … Social capital encourages commonsense and pragmatism.  Its absence feeds  “the  culture  of  complaint”  –  a  sense  that  everything  is  out  of control and other people are to blame.” Throughout  the  1990s,  much  attention  was  devoted  to  the  question  of  access  to justice, but the methods used were much the same as might have been employed in Dickens’s day.  In 1994, the Federal Access to Justice Advisory Committee headed by  Ronald  Sackville  QC  (as  his  Honour  then  was)  considered  the  reports  of  the Australian Senate and the House of Representatives Standing Committees on Legal and   Constitutional   Affairs   and   a   joint   Select   Committee;   a   report   of   the Administrative Review Council; a Trade Practices Commission report; a report by the Independent Committee of Inquiry into National Competition Policy; publications of the  Australian  Institute  of  Judicial  Administration;  a  number  of  reports  of  the Australian Law Reform Commission (“ALRC”); a report of the Family Law Court; a report  of  the  committee  for  the  review  of  the  system  of  a  review  of  migration decisions; several reports of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission and of the New South Wales Attorney-General’s department and of the New South Wales Law   Society;   and   several   reports   of   the   Victorian   Law   Reform   Commission.   Fortunately,  the  possibility  of  all  this  important  work  becoming  like  Jarndyce  v. Jarndyce was recognised and, I think successfully, short-circuited by the Access to Justice Advisory Committee itself, which reported in a publication called, “Access to Justice: An Action Plan” in an endeavour to draw together the analysis of all of those                                                 7   Bagehot, W.  The English Constitution (2^nd edition) London:  Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1925. 8   www.blisinst.org.au\papers\davis_glyn_reinventing\print.html visited 31/03/2004.